The federal government has launched an investigation into a staffing firm suspected of supplying illegal workers to a controversial food company in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, according to local television reports.
Prosperity Services is alleged to have supplied illegal food to Charleroi-based Fourth Street Foods, which assembles prepared foods for sale throughout the United States.
fourth avenue hire 700 people have immigrated seeking low-wage jobs, most of which are provided by third-party employment agencies that do not provide normal workplace benefits such as health care. But Fourth Street executives say they only hired workers with legal work permits, according to WTAE-TV.
Still, investigators say at least one of the contractors, Prosperity Services, paid cash to immigrants even though they were not legally eligible to work in the U.S. It is suspected that he added to the
Federal officials reportedly said the contractors “knowingly paid undocumented nonnational employees in cash” and “transported and housed undocumented nonnationals for employment purposes.”
An investigation into Prosperity owner Andy Ha continues after $1 million in cash and company records were seized in a raid on his office.
Fourth Street Foods owner David Barbe claimed he had no knowledge of the deceptive practices that federal authorities have accused Prosperity of engaging in. He added that Fourth Street Foods is fully cooperating with the federal investigation.
Barbe argued in September that he was in favor of hiring immigrants because they fill jobs that Americans won't take. “If 300 Americans came today and they wanted to work, we would make room for them,” he said. shouted He said this in an interview with CBS News.
An influx of immigrants seeking low-wage manufacturing jobs is putting enormous pressure on small-town communities like Charleroi. Some Republican officials favor cheap labor, but the problem spills over into many other areas, with housing costs rising for Americans and school systems scrambling to accommodate immigrant children. As a result, education budgets have ballooned, the poor have flooded in, and medical services are facing budget shortages. patient.
Although leftists argue that immigrants add value to the United States and benefit the country, many do not actually want to become Americans. A resident of Charleroi, who is also an immigrant, pointed out that his fellow immigrants, especially Haitians, have not made much effort or even attempted to assimilate into American culture.
Recently, an immigrant named Renee arrived. said city journal Many immigrants have little education and do not trust white people.
“They're all 'country',” he said of the many immigrants who come to the United States to work. They don't want to talk to white people. “I've been working at Fourth Street for two years and I still see people who don't speak English or understand traffic signs or traffic laws,” Rene told the magazine. “Many Haitians fail their driving tests here, and some of them blame racism for why they continue to fail their driving tests.”
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